Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.07010, -9.20998
- SMR number
- MA039-066----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In improved pasture, located on a gentle W-facing slope, just below the top of a low N–S ridge.
This possible rath is shown on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. 30-35m); on the 25-inch plan it is depicted with two banks and an intervening fosse, with the outer bank on the S arc incorporated into a later field boundary. It has been entirely levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level, bar a very slight surface undulation. The field fence on the S side of the field is extant and describes a shallow arc, preserving the original curve of the outer bank as shown on the 25-inch plan.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.